1 Lydia Whitecliff keeps to herself in Unit 602. She’s my oldest resident. Silver haired, partial to crochet. Quiet. Not a troublesome tenant. A proud native to This City. It’s a shame how few of her kind remain. Ron Morris, Unit 211, is a lonely bachelor who lives only for his dog. A runty, three-legged… Continue reading I AM THE RISE
Author: jj de Melo
JJ de Melo is a queer, Filipino-American and Portuguese writer with creative writing training from the City College of San Francisco. He has had work published in Sci-Fi Shorts, Fiction on the Web, Space & Time, and Literally Stories. In 2025, he won the editor's choice award for fiction from Forum Magazine.